Costar Group·Software Engineer

Costar Group Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Negative

Washington, DCPosted Dec 2023 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

After applying online, I went through a couple of phone interviews and then ended up with several hours of back-to-back interviews onsite.

The whole onsite experience felt disorganized and tense, and it included two separate coding assessment questions.

Both assessments lacked clear guidance. I was handed a laptop with partial code written on the first assessment, but I wasn’t given much context and the interviewer even pulled out a phone for most of the time. Two different interviewers didn’t even know what position I was interviewing for, and they kept framing the conversation with hypothetical “what would you do in this case” questions.

The coding pieces were unclear, the communication was inconsistent, and the interviewers

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